Ch.107I Missed You So Much, Sister

# “What’s this? A misfire?”

The two jet-black monsters running faster than the energy bullet fired by Gojillia.

However, seeing the energy bullet split in half and explode in mid-air, Katsuo thought it was fortunate regardless.

Lorensky and Shinwoo felt the same way.

They had planned to rush toward Gojillia’s jaw as it opened its mouth again to attempt another shot, intending to shut the beast’s mouth.

But then.

“Huff… huff…”

“Jaewon?”

“Huff… huff…!”

Something seemed off about his son.

Seeing Jaewon taking deep breaths as if panicked, Shinwoo was about to ask what was wrong.

However.

“Han, Shinwoo… can I leave this place to you?”

“Huh?”

“I need to go to Mother separately. There’s something I must do.”

“You’re going to Sophia at this timing?”

Of course, with Gojillia half-incapacitated now, the plan wouldn’t be greatly affected even if Jaewon left.

But more than anything.

“Uh, alright…”

Shinwoo felt a strange emotion as his son looked at him with desperate eyes, as if pleading, and somehow felt he should agree.

“Thank you.”

After thanking his father for the first time, Han Jaewon immediately rushed off to his mother.

***

“Lia! W-wait a moment!”

“Unni?”

Meanwhile, Sophia stopped Lia from the future who was heading to subjugate Gojillia.

“What’s wrong? Did something happen?”

“N-no, that’s not it…”

Lia smiled lovingly at her.

Even though she had grown up, her expression was unmistakably that of her sister Lia whom she knew.

But.

‘Did this Lia really turn the future into that?’

Sophia had already heard fragments about the terribly changed future from her son who came from the future before Lia.

And knowing that Lia was at the center of that incident.

“Lia… there’s something I want to ask you.”

“Something you want to ask?”

“Yes, nothing special, just how am I in the future? Since you’re Lia from the future, you can tell me a bit about the future, right?”

As naturally as possible, like a curious girl.

Laughing haha, Sophia very naturally expected to hear about the future from Lia’s mouth…

“Unni.”

“Yes?”

But she was mistaken.

“Why do you want to hear about that?”

“Uh, what?”

“Unni, do you know? You always have a habit of smiling unnaturally sweetly before telling a lie.”

“…!!”

She had been caught by Lia, whom she had comforted and soothed every day.

Surprised by this fact, Sophia unconsciously felt a sense of crisis and began to step back.

And Lia, not missing that opening.

Thump, thump.

“Unni, tell me.”

“Lia…”

“Who told you? Who told you about the future?”

Having removed the angelic smile from her face, she approached her sister with the cruel expression of the future.

“Could it be humans? Was there someone among the few human rebels who could go to the past?”

“Human rebels… then Lia, you really…!”

“Yes, I, no, we succeeded in exterminating 99% of humanity in the future.”

“!!!”

Her sister’s shocking confession followed.

But from Lia’s perspective, it was a fact she would have had to reveal eventually anyway.

“At least in the future 20 years from now, humans don’t live on the surface anymore.”

“Then…?”

“Well. We killed them to the brink of extinction. I heard the survivors formed some kind of rebel group and went underground, but it wasn’t something I, as the ‘Empress,’ needed to personally look into.”

“Lia! Did you really kill humans?”

“Yes.”

“…!”

“I killed a lot of them. I got tired of seeing them stab my brother in the back so many times.”

Lia spoke coldly about “killing” humans without any hesitation or concern.

“But it seems I made a mistake.”

“A mistake…?”

“I didn’t know humans, whom I considered merely a slight nuisance, still had this kind of power.”

“…!”

“If I had known, I should have personally killed them all that day.”

“Lia!”

With her body wrapped in killing intent toward humans, Lia was now right in front of Sophia.

Seeing this, Kurumi from the side tried to intervene somehow, but.

“Amaterasu! Quickly, those two…”

“Cannot. If I do. World Tree. Will break.”

“You can’t do both?”

“Impossible. At least. To kill. That monster. I must. Act seriously.”

She was in a state where she couldn’t move because of the World Tree situation.

If she got up to help Sophia, there was concern that the entire city of Osaka might melt due to Gojillia’s poison gas.

This meant that only Sophia could stop Lia now.

“Originally, His Majesty was going to come get you soon, Unni.”

“His Majesty? You mean Shinwoo?”

“Yes. But now that I’ve seen the rebels’ scheme, I need to move the plan forward a bit. It seems I’ll have to take you myself.”

As she finished speaking, her sister’s white hand approached her face.

Normally, Sophia would have quietly accepted that warm touch, but.

Slap!

“Unni?”

“Lia, I can’t understand. You killed humans? And with Shinwoo… I just can’t understand.”

“You don’t need to understand, Unni. I’ve tried to understand, but it’s already over.”

Sophia firmly pushed away Lia’s hand.

However, as if such things didn’t matter, the matured Lia simply tried to grab her sister again one-sidedly.

“Unni, let’s go to the ‘future’ together.”

“Lia?”

“In the future, all the humans you hated so much have gone underground, making the world much more comfortable than it is now!”

“Lia, stop…”

“Do you think that’s all? I missed your shadow so much. I haven’t contracted with a single human since you died. So I’ve been thinking only of you all this time…”

“Lia, stop!”

At that moment, an order from a master to her servant monster.

Grip.

“…!”

Sophia, who had forced control over Lia according to their contract, tried to stop her sister whose eyes were becoming increasingly dangerous.

Thump… Thump!

“Huh?”

But she failed.

“Unni, do you know? The limit of monsters that a Beast Hunter can completely subdue is up to those with exactly twice their ability.”

Grab!

“Otherwise, they need help to subdue them. Well, in that case, they can’t control them perfectly, but still.”

“Lia, how did you…!”

“Hehe. How am I not following your orders? That’s simple, isn’t it?”

Lia grabbed both wrists of her sister who was trying to resist and forced her face between her cleavage.

Having embraced her sister in her arms after such a long time, Lia spoke with an excited voice, as if savoring the moment.

“It’s because I’m much stronger than you now!”

“L-Lia…”

“Ah, but don’t worry, Unni. This is the only time I’ll forcibly hold you, and once we go to the future together, I’ll go back to being your and brother’s exclusive servant monster who only obeys you two.”

“Lia, let me go!”

“No. Unni, I missed you so much. I missed your caressing hands, I missed showering with you, and you know when I sometimes snuck out of the shadows in the early morning when I couldn’t sleep? I missed your embrace in bed the most!!”

Then one day, that sister burned to coal in a fire.

After that, she was truly so lonely and missed her so much that she thought she would go crazy.

The only time she felt peace was when she was in her brother’s embrace, engraving that warm passion on her body, but that was only about once a week.

Even the children she bore with all her might were lovely, but it was a different feeling from her sister.

Yes, in the end, her sister was irreplaceable.

“Unni, soon the effect of the ring will end, and I’ll return to the future where I came from.”

“!”

“But! I know the special nature of this ring. This ‘Ring of the Future,’ you see, if the monster who has grown tries to infuse its energy into its master at the moment of disappearance, the equipment recognizes the two beings as one and makes it possible to travel to the future together.”

“That means…”

“Yes, when the ring’s effect ends, only the child version of me will remain here! Because you’ll be going to the future with me!”

Hearing the mature Lia’s plan, Sophia struggled to escape somehow.

However, the future Lia was a monster that would have certainly been classified as National Disaster-Level by American standards if the Hunter Association had existed.

Grip.

“Unni, when we go to the future, let’s take a shower together first. I miss when you scrubbed my back.”

“Lia, let go of this right now!”

Of course, Sophia couldn’t escape with her own strength, and so until the ring’s time limit ended.

“Unni, and you know what? If you really want, His Majesty might even allow a human autonomous zone…”

Stab!

“Kuhek?!”

“Lia?”

She thought this state would continue, but.

At that moment, a jet-black blade emerged from Lia’s forehead as she closed her eyes tightly, immersed in memories.

“Hey, monster. Let go right now. Unless you want to see your head burst.”

“…!!”

Forced to release Sophia, Lia immediately kicked backward at the presence behind her who had pulled the blade from her head.

Bang!

“Who are you!”

Standing behind her was a boy with beautiful blonde hair holding a holy sword.

“A Hunter? …No, I suppose you must be the rebel who provided future information to my sister.”

“Yes, but we’ve met before. Don’t you remember me?”

“Met before? You mean a mere human dared to see me and survived?”

There was no way a human among the rebels had survived after seeing her, the Second Imperial Princess of the future world.

Even the leader of the rebel forces, whom she had once somewhat acknowledged, had his heart personally carved out by her the day he saw her.

Then who on earth was this boy before her?

Above all, that flowing blonde hair…

“Jaewon!”

“Mother, please stay still. I’ll handle this.”

“Mo, ther…?”

At that moment, unbelievable words came from the boy’s mouth.

Seeing him call her past sister “Mother,” Lia’s frown quickly turned to cold sweat.

“Mother…? But that day, the prince burned with my sister…”

“Almost died. But didn’t die.”

“…!?!! Then you, really…?!”

“I survived. Saved by none other than the humans you so despised!”

Then the ground began to shake.

And with a small battle cry, black sparks gathered around Jaewon.

Seeing this, Lia couldn’t help but acknowledge it.

Because the signs she was seeing now were exactly the same form of transformation as her brother’s, which none of her children had inherited despite giving birth to numerous heirs, nor had any children of other bloodlines.

“Haaaaaaaa…!”

“Complete kaijufication?”

“HAAAAAAAAAAA-!!”

With a black roar, Jaewon’s body was completely covered in black armor just like Shinwoo’s, though perhaps not with the same performance, and Lia’s face turned pale.

“If Sophia is the mother who gave birth to me, I have another mother who raised me.”

“Then you really are the prince…!”

“Here and now, I’ll avenge my other mother, Teacher Lee Jin-ah, whom you killed!”